Oh, right! And I was going to say that there's a reason the Fundamental Attribution Error is, like, a Thing: it's Really hard to grok others' experiences until we have a similar frame. I have a bipolar friend whose dad was forever trying to get her to just bootstrap her way out who got pretty vicious Alzheimer's later in life, and told her he finally got why no bootstrap was enough. She told me she kinda wished he'd never gotten that empathy <3. I'm sorry you got the perspective you did, but also super glad you found a way back to feeling better.
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Date: 2018-12-18 02:56 pm (UTC)